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91_HB3844
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1 AN ACT to amend the Railroad Police Act by changing
2 Section 2.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Railroad Police Act is amended by
6 changing Section 2 as follows:
7 (610 ILCS 80/2) (from Ch. 114, par. 98)
8 Sec. 2. Conductors of all railroad trains, and the
9 captain or master of any boat carrying passengers within the
10 jurisdiction of this state, is vested with police powers
11 while on duty on their respective trains and boats, and may
12 wear an appropriate badge indicative of such authority.
13 In the policing of its properties any railroad may
14 provide for the appointment and maintenance of such police
15 force as it may find necessary and practicable to aid and
16 supplement the police forces of any municipality in the
17 protection of its property and the protection of the persons
18 and property of its passengers and employees, or otherwise in
19 furtherance of the purposes for which such railroad was
20 organized. While engaged in the conduct of their employment,
21 the members of such railroad police force have and may
22 exercise like police powers as those conferred upon the
23 police of cities.
24 (Source: Laws 1968, p. 198.)